I just loaded Vista Ultimate RTM on my test host, and I tried extracting a paltry 300 meg zip file with some of my old docs on it… I don’t think it’s supposed to take 30 minutes to extract a 300 meg zip file… See here… I have even disabled AV for this [...]

The reason that sometimes I appear to be very intelligent, and that others I appear to be an idiot, is that I am an Air-Head. The scatterbrained code groking equivelant of a Valley Girl. No wonder.
Well, I guess they say that the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem, [...]

I noticed that I’m not the only one dissatisfied with the way that C# chooses overloads (Defaulting to the most ambiguously matching overload) In fact, these guys have a whole language (Nemerle) that sort of fixes all the stupid things about C# by making native the features that SHOULD have been included in C#1.0. [...]

Hah! This is one for the record books or something… I’m maintaining a production SQL Server 2000 host with about 20 databases on it. None of them are huge or anything, and the hard drive the data and backups live on has about 120 GB free at any given time… Last night during [...]

I was ecstatic when I saw that .net 3.0 was released, but I was completely crushed when I saw that it didn’t include the 3.0 versions of the language compilers… Extending the architecture with the new framework additions is great and all, but the real meat of the new features in the pipeline as I [...]